PC Games Online – Wissen, was gespielt wird! These are some very nice screenshots from the forthcoming action-adventure “Dreamfall” which continues the story from the great adventure “The longest journey” by Funcom. I’m really looking forward to this game and it seems like chances are good I won’t be disappointed. As far as I read about it it will be … Read More
iTunes Companion
Hey, here’s another really cool prog although it’s -only- a widget really. It’s called iTunes Companion and it does the following: It automatically grabs the album title of the song your currently playing and looks for the fitting album art on amazon and google (if you don’t have it already of course). Then it puts it in its own window … Read More
Neues Urheberrecht: Kabinett kriminalisiert Kopierer – Netzwelt – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten
Neues Urheberrecht: Kabinett kriminalisiert Kopierer – Netzwelt – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten Apparently they finally did it. Quiet, sneaky and nearly unnoticed the german parliament made a new copyright law. The process has taken some years now and it included new aspects to secure technologies like DRM, copy protection and comparable techniques. They started with banishing all software that breaks … Read More
OpenSource Storytelling and Game Design?
I’m just doing some updates to a little project of mine hopefully becoming a full story on day. And suddenly I wondered whether there has been any attempt to write a story in the way they do OpenSource Software. Like e.g. Debian with many Developers from anywhere in the world contributing to a single project solemnly over the web. I … Read More
The Dilbert Blog: Too Many Coincidences
The Dilbert Blog: Too Many Coincidences This is a very interesting discussion about coincidences. I actually don’t believe in coincidences and my favourite quote from above’s comments is: “coincidences are a glimpse of an underlying pattern”. That’s quite close to what I see in all those little things that happen at surprisingly the right time. But maybe we as humans … Read More
the good sides of globalisation
Well, when I flew to London I was (among other things) introduced to new wonderful products that I didn’t know until then. One thing was a british brand of potato chips called Burts. They handed out free samples on the plane and I immediately fell in love with them. Just in case I didn’t mention it in this blog before, … Read More
Small cities
Well, as I pointed out repeatedly I visited London during the holidays and one thing I sadly discovered when coming back was: If you have been to a really big city once it’s really hard to come back to a kind of small city. For explanation, the city I live in counts about 250.000 people and is indeed the largest … Read More
Mind the gap
Probably the most important sentence that I will remember from my five day trip to London. Whenever you go by tube you will hear this over and over again three, times at each station. It is mainly a warning so that you don’t fall off the train when entering or leaving but I suppose it is much more than just … Read More
Happy New Year (2006)- via letterboxd
As I spent a few days in London I managed to grab some pictures of the very huge fireworks at the “London Eye”. Standing on Westminster Bridge all0wed a beautiful view along the river and millions of people shared this event. Unfortuneately that lead to a comparably memorable way home when everybody began to push oneself through the crowd and … Read More
"The path of the one is made by the many"
Well, at least, the path lead to three different choices. I mean, the three different computer games based on the “Matrix Trilogy”. I personally played “Enter the Matrix” when it came out and my impression was that it was, well.. not finished. The graphics were incomplete, some levels looked like the designers created them during lunch time. It was an … Read More
Christmas vs. X-Mas
You probably already noticed it the last time you walked across the centre of the city you live in. This smell of sweets all around. Those funny fir trees standing all over the place. Strange people -most of them might look quite heavy- in red suits standing at nearly every corner. And whereever you find a loudspeaker you’ll probably hear … Read More
13 hours Star Wars
Sometimes the things geeks/nerds do cannot be explained logically. I’m a big fan of Star Wars and I know some other geeks that are big Star Wars fans on their own. As you know the Star Wars Episode III – DVD came out some time ago and therefore we (three friends and me) planned to do the unbelievable: Watching all … Read More